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A man who suffered a horrific bear attack and survived to tell the tale amazed Phil and Holly with the sight of his nose regrowing on his arm after it had been ripped off in the attack.

Lee Brooke was mauled by a bear while on a hunt in in 2016, when he decided to separate from his group to retrieve an elk he’d killed the day before.

The rest of his hunting party each had a gun, but Lee himself only had a knife.

‘I blame complacency. You forget the danger you’re in,’ he said. ‘I Walked back into the woods and found the elk on my own. Walked up to it and didn’t get too close, but saw it had been turned over and covered with brush.’

That was the telltale sign a bear was near by, and Lee suddenly realised the danger he was in.

Lee has his nose regrowing on his forearm (Picture: ITV)

‘As I turned to leave I saw a mother grisly bear coming my way, and before I could take two steps she grabbed my backpack,’ he said. He explained how the bear slapped him and knocked him out, then mauled him down the mountain.

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‘I woke up against a log and she was sniffing my cheek,’ he recalled. ‘A voice in my head said ‘don’t play dead,’ so I struck out at her and she clamped onto it. I felt immense pressure and pushed back against her to create a gag reflex.’

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He continued: ‘I then stabbed her in the head with my knife, which hadn’t left my hand. She let go. I knew she was going to come back so I stood up but couldn’t see, I didn’t know what was wrong. I could see down to the ground but couldn’t see in front of me.

Lee’s nose will be reattached (Picture: ITV)

‘On the right side of me was my nose and my moustache on the ground, and now I know what’s wrong with me but I don’t have time to worry as I know the bear is here,’ he said.

Lee scrambled to higher ground and climbed on some logs where he called for help – which didn’t come for seven hours. It took a further five to get him to hospital. Luckily, his brother-in-law found his nose and moustache lying on the ground and put it in his pocket.

The nose was attached to his forearm the next day and leeches were used to encourage blood flow – and Phil and Holly were left shocked as he pulled up his sleeve and revealed the appendage.

Holly and Phil were fascinated (Picture: ITV)

‘I lost some of the nose,’ he said. ‘They have enough to work with. It’ll take a year to two years to complete the reconstructive process.

Showing the camera his miracle nose, he said: ‘This is my right nostril, my left nostril died, and my lip died so I lost my moustache! They’re going to give me a new one.’

Lee has already been back to the hunting spot twice since the attack, once to recreate the scene to learn how to avoid the same thing happening in future.

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